[ale] [slightly OT] Android Tablet mysteriously out of space

[neal at mnopltd.com (Neal Rhodes)]

Going old-school, I started terminal emulator, did a du, and it has been
stuck for about 40 minutes at...

615712 ./storage/emulated/legacy/.wsj-external-data-cache-USA/20991230

Which I surmise means that the one AFTER this is a whopper.   Suggests
the Wall St Journal app may be the culprit.   Which would be doubly
annoying, since I uninstalled that last night. 


On Fri, 2014-02-28 at 07:49 -0500, Neal Rhodes wrote:

> I have a Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet running all stock OS.   Not a
> whole lot installed.  
> 
> It recently has gotten slower and slower at getting email and the Wall
> Street Journal. 
> 
> A couple of days ago it threw up an alert about not enough space.   
> 
> Sure enough, only 20mb left. 
> 
> Funny thing is, there is no way the applications shown add up to
> 12gb. 
> 
> So I stuffed in a 2gb SD card, moved some things to SD, cleared cache,
> rebooted, etc.  Removed some apps I can live without. 
> 
> Still only 480mb free.    
> 
> So, I figure let's install one of those apps that gives a graphical DF
> and figure out where all the space has gone.   I pick the first one,
> which is 471KB, and when I install, it downloads, but when says "not
> enough space to install". 
> 
> I'm kinda stuck here.   Any thoughts before I get the extra strong
> reading glasses and fire up the terminal emulator and start manually
> doing df to figure out what happened? 
> 
> Neal Rhodes
> MNOP Ltd
> 
> 
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